Verrückt nach Clara (2007– ) User Reviews

Surprisingly great! It deserves better ratings!

[DerSongsurfer · 8/10 · 4 February 2007]

First of all: Neither am I a woman nor am I gay but still I believe this series to be one of the best ever made in Germany (next to Stromberg I would say)!

I believed it, as many others I'm quite sure, to be just another "Sex and the City" which I didn't like at all for being full of clichés and stereotypes. It lacked story which was filled out afterwards by showing some skin and sexuality. "Verrückt nach Clara" is different: surprisingly refreshing and modern, without being prude or afraid of being so.

The acting is superb as well and I truly have not the slightest idea why both only few people are watching it and the ratings here are so low.

So all in all it deserves the 8/10!

Horribly uptight, pseudo-hip nonsense!

[Emwolb · 2/10 · 1 March 2007]

Despite several newspaper articles and TV spots this series got horrible ratings right from the start and they even continued to get worse and worse from episode to episode, which resulted in its air date being pushed back twice from the initial prime time spot at 8:15pm. First to 10:15pm, then to past midnight. How come you may wonder? Well, first and foremost the storyline asks the viewer to sympathize with a young woman who without much of a setup ends up in one ridiculous situation after the other. It starts out with our oh so modern main protagonist having sex with her boss as well as her gay room mate (seperately, of course) and as a result ending up pregnant. I won't spoil anymore, you may as well see for yourself.

Advertised beforehand as a sexy romantic drama that is supposedly going to push boundaries, "Verrückt nach Clara" turned out to be anything but that: Clara obviously only has sex when she's either fully clothed or at least still wearing underwear. Now how modern is that? Even more unintentionally funny was the bathtub scene in the hopefully last episode which featured so much foam that it almost reached the ceiling (OK, slight exaggeration, I admit). That's probably the only situation in which this series actually pushed any boundaries: How much foam can we put into a bathtub without making it leak?!

Apart from that the acting is mostly OK. Nothing worth writing home about, but solid TV standard. It's actually a shame that they haven't been given better material to work with...

Just another meaningless love-comedy TV show

[smoothhoney1265 · 25 March 2007]

A little bit "Sex and the city", the typical quota gay best friend and absolutely no brain - there you have "Verrückt nach Clara". A meaningless series about a young woman, who works as a journalist in Berlin, can do nothing, shags with men and discusses life and love with her best gay friend. This series was forgotten even before it started.

The only person who pulls it out a bit is Sascha Göpel as the gay buddy. The protagonist, Clara, looks like a transvestite and sucks beyond words. And finally, the plot is absolutely empty, boring and leads nowhere. In the end Clara has shagged, lost, shagged more, nothing has changed and nothing happened. You might as well not watch it.